Dear CHIFA colleagues, I would like to call your attention to the coming Nordic Global Health Talk, Wednesday 3 February at 09:00 GMT. This time Professor Thorkild Tylleskär from the University of Bergen will give a lecture on "Neonatal health and care in low-income countries: how do we move forward?"
The webinar is open for all interested and free of charge, but you need to pre-register to have a Zoom link sent to you: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yVLMTd4DSQq94U6kOS_7lQ <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucph-k...
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Regards,
Geir Gunnlaugsson MD, PhD, MPH
Tjarnargata 16
IS-101 Reykjavik
Iceland
mobile+354-843 6237
https://english.hi.is/staff/geirgunnlaugsson
About the talk
Child mortality (of children below 5 years of age) has been steadily decreasing over the last decades. Neonatal mortality (of children below 28 days of age) has not decreased as much. The Sustainable Development Goal no 3.1 aims to reduce neonatal mortality in each country to below 12 per 1000 live births. Many low-income countries today are above 25 per 1000 live births which means that a reduction by half is needed. In my talk, I will discuss the difference between lowering child mortality and neonatal mortality and how we can move forward.
About Nordic Global Health Talks
Nordic Global Health Talks is a monthly webinar series about global health from the Nordic universities. The first Wednesday of each month at 10.00 am CET, you can tune in online via Zoom and listen to an interesting global health lecture from a Nordic university. It is free and open to everyone interested in knowing more about Nordic global health research, education and collaborative projects. Nordic Global Health Talks is organised by Nordic Network on Global Health.
Each webinar will be 45 minutes: approximately 30 minutes presentation, followed by a 15 minutes Q&A.
CHIFA Profile: Geir Gunnlaugsson is Professor of Global Health at the University of Iceland. He graduated with a medical diploma (MD) from this university with post-graduate training in paediatrics (PhD) and public health (MPH) at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Research and publications on, e.g., breastfeeding, infant and child mortality, child development and abuse, measles, cholera, and health systems in Iceland, Guinea-Bissau and Malawi. He was the General Secretary of ISSOP International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health in 2009-2017, and currently chairman of Africa 20:20 an Icelandic NGO to promote interest and knowledge on sub-Saharan Africa.
Email: geirgunnlaugsson AT hi.is
